During this program, Wyoming author Alyson Hagy talks about and reads from her novel Boleto. She also tells the story behind the story, which involves a young man she met seven years before writing the book.

Brandon Schrand talks about the influence reading literature had on his early life, when he was a boy growing up in Soda Springs, Idaho, and during the seven years he spent muddling his way through college (the first person in his family to go to college). He also reads several passages from his second memoir, Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior.

Even as bones they were sublime, the sky-scraping brachyo- an brontosauri,tree-boned haunches, handfuls of arm-length claws,T. Rex with teeth uncountable as stars.In my mind, they were fleshed, they ripped and gnawed.Crossing Central Park at dusk, I'd seethe giants grazing still, the swaying treetopshiding some great nibbling head, and hearthem in the ground-juddering thunderas our subway shot like progress from the dark.Then swallowed us, like some great whale or ark.